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Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by MonkeyMalarky on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:43PM (#32420648)
They really would. I feel like kaggle is mostly teams slowly grinding for very small incremental improvements over each other. Adding a time component would really sort the wheat from the chaff.
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Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by boringg on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:52PM (#32420703)
It would certainly change the dynamic. Not sure about wheat from the chaff - faster != better.
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Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by westurner on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:26PM (#32420871)
Metrics for scoring: error/cost/fitness, time to solution (t), dollars to solution ($), resources in terms of {carbon, kWh, USD,}, costs in terms of costed opcodes,

Whether there's a logically plausible causal explanation (for quickly-discovered probably just associative relations)

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Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by anothernewdude on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:31AM (#32421611)
The monthly ones are fun.
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